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OverviewThis book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery—first personified by “Dirty” Harry Callahan—and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world’s “policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marilyn YaquintoPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030248048ISBN 10: 3030248046 Pages: 311 Publication Date: 20 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Frontier Ambitions and Cowboy Narratives3. Dirty Harry and the Urban Frontier4. Black Crimefighters: Portraits in Blue5. Female Crimefighters Defending the Homefront6. Becoming American: Ethnic Others as Crimefighting Heroes7. Globocops, La Frontera, and America's War on Drugs8. The War on Terror, Homegrown Racism, and the White Knight9. Recruiting the Other as Globocops.10. Policing the World: The Last (White) American StandingReviewsAuthor InformationMarilyn Yaquinto was an interdisciplinary professor at Truman State University and former journalist who shares in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 riots. She is also author of Pump ‘Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and co-editor of books about race in media. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |